Abstract
All living organisms are, at various stages in their life history, capable of growth. Given suitable conditions, this can mean change in size (Fig. 1.1), change in form and/or change in number. These three processes together form an important part of the phenomenon of life. Among natural systems they help to distinguish the living from the non-living though, in a sense, many non-living systems also grow. Crystals, river deltas and volcanic cones can change recognizably within human time-scales.
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© 1990 Roderick Hunt
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Hunt, R. (1990). Introduction. In: Basic Growth Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9117-6_1
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